I've tried to recreate, as close to the actual rank as possible, the rank system currently used by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. These are a mixture of real life ranks and few hypothetical ones.

Here's for the Philippine Navy:

Officer (Sleeve)

Warrant Officer (Sleeve)

*The Philippine Navy (and the AFP as a whole) does not have Warrant Officer currently in use.

Enlisted (Sleeve)

I've used the US and NATO rank codes to try and bring the PN's (and AFP's) enlisted system in line with their US counterpart and sister service in the AFP.

Midshipman [Naval Academy] (Sleeve)

Midshipman [NROTC] (Sleeve)

Midshipman Petty Officer [Naval Academy and NROTC]

Officer Candidate (Sleeve)

There is currently no Philippine Naval Academy. Officers of the AFP (Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps) are trained in the Philippine Military Academy, OCS and ROTC. Midshipman rank (Hypothetical) system is based heavily on the USNA's and the US NROTC's.

I'll upload the rest as soon as I finish them. :D

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And because this is Hypothetical, I took some liberties in creating them, though I am also working on the Admiral's shoulder boards to make them resemble their real life counterpart a bit more.

I see that the American influence remains very strong in the Philippines. If I ddient know any better I would have thought I was looking at US Navy officers an sailors. And the Marine uniforms are incredibly similar as well.

I had the same thoughts about using gold triangles to designated Warrant Officers. But when worn with BDUs, flight suits and other specialty uniform, the ranks insignia are embroidered using black threads. And rank identification would be difficult for officers and warrant officers.

I had the idea of using Anahaw Leaf (Saribus rotundifolius). But then I found out that the Philippine National Police (PNP) uses the leaf along with sampaguita (Jasminum sambac) as a rank insignia to designated their officers.

I wanted to use symbols that are either associated with the Philippines or symbols used by the Filipino during the struggle for independence (ie. symbols used by the Katipunan, by the revolutionary government, revolutionary army, etc.)

I might try and do a rank insignia for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, but not as an independent state, more like an insurgent army. I'm not too keen on the idea that they would be independent, pardon my opinion.

I might try and do a rank insignia for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, but not as an independent state, more like an insurgent army. I'm not too keen on the idea that they would be independent, pardon my opinion.

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Hi virose09!

I agree with you! I don't want to see the Philippines split up either.

This might even be another good category for our Encyclopedia--Insurgent Militaries Rank Insignia.

Still working on a design for the Warrant Officer (metal collar insignia), I went ahead and made the rank insignia for the Philippine Marine Corps.

I'll update this post when I finish the rest.

Officer (Dress Blue)

Officer (Full Dress Blue)

Warrant Officer (Dress Blue)

Warrant Officer (Full Dress Blue)

Enlisted (Dress Blue)

Enlisted's rank chevron's color changes depending on the uniform worn by the Marine. (following suite from the US Marines', the only difference is that the Philippine Marines chevrons are red over yellow vice yellow over red of the USMC)

Midshipman (MIDN/Officer Dress Blue [NROTC-Marines])

Midshipman (MIDN/Officer Full Dress Blue [NROTC-Marines])

Midshipman (MIDN/Enlisted Dress Blue [NROTC-Marines])working on this one too

Unlike their counterpart in the US, NROTC (Marines) uses the same uniform worn by the Philippine Marine Corps. Officers of the Philippine Marine Corps are trained, study and wear the same uniform worn by Midshipmen in the Philippine Naval Academy.

Last edited by virose09 on Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:57 am, edited 6 times in total.

Hey guys, yeah I'm thinking of modifying the current rank structure of the AFP (Hypothetical) to indicate the position of Sergeant Major. JMRamos is right, in the (real) AFP, the Sergeant Major is a billet held by only the top-tier enlisted members of the AFP.

I might use the US Air Force's system of adding lozenge and star to indicate positions held by a service member with a rank of E-8 to E-9. So far, the billets include:

1. Sergeant Major of the AFP2. Sergeant Major of the Philippine Army3. Sergeant Major of the Philippine Air Force4. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Philippine Navy5. Sergeant Major of the Philippine Marine Corps6. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Philippine Coast Guard

I edited the color of the Philippine Marines' Dress Blue (it was black before) to a dark shade of blue. Still working on the warrant officer insignia, but I'm leaning more and more on something similar to the US Warrant Officer insignia during World War II.

For the meantime, here's Service Dress of the Marines.

Officer

Officer (Metal Collar Insignia)

Warrant Officer

Warrant Officer (Metal Collar Insignia)

Enlisted

Enlisted (Khaki Uniform)

Midshipman (Officer)

Last edited by virose09 on Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:40 am, edited 6 times in total.

Minor update. Added the Warrant Officer rank insignia. I settled on a silver triangle with increasing stripes (color of stripe depending on the branch of service) with a "W" to indicate Warrant Officer.

Yeah, I've seen a couple of old photographs with AFP personnel in a gray-ish uniform. Fast-forward a to today, officers who wear light gray service dress uniform belongs to the AFP Technical and Administrative Services (essentially staff corps officers).

This photo from the Philippine Navy FB page from last year's anniversary celebrations of Naval Base Cavite shows a Senior Master Sergeant of the PMC sporting the curved rockers.

Since the yearly US-Philippine joint training exercises began in 2002, there has been an effort by the USMC to help prepare the Philippine Marines for the changing face of battle. As a result of years of joint training drills and participation in military exercises, since 2010-11 there have been senior enlisted personnel that have started wearing the curve rockers, possibly because of recommendations by the Commandant, PMC, to the AFP leadership. Other ranks below do not sport the curve rockers.